<span style="color: #222222;">The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has suspended the flying licence of two Jet Airways pilots for attempting to take off an aircraft from a taxiway parallel to the runway at Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia last week. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">As many as 148 people on board the Mumbai-bound Jet Airways flight escaped unhurt after the aircraft went off the runway following an aborted take-off from there on 3rd of August. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">An official of the aviation regulator DGCA had said that the pilots aborted the take off after they were informed about a "barrier" on the runway. The aircraft was taxing at 100 knots. It veered off the runway due to sudden stopping.</span><br />